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Crisis and Care (Hardcover)
Dustin D Benac, Erin Weber-Johnson; Foreword by Craig Dykstra
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Christian organization, education, and leadership are changing.
Headlines note rising religious disaffiliation ("the Nones"), moral
failures by religious leaders, and the mounting crisis for
religious education. Research on congregations, Christian higher
education, and theological education also paints a dismal picture:
declining engagement and growing fragility. These trends have
changed the landscape that surrounds Christian thought and
practice, but the story of local communities presents a more
complex portrait: communities are also coalescing around vitality,
wisdom, and hope. Adaptive Church explores what it takes for
communities of faith to respond to uncertainty and shifting
organizational environments. Based on fifty-two interviews and four
years of empirical work, Dustin Benac charts a theological paradigm
for collaboration and community in a changing world. He pioneers an
interdisciplinary method that identifies the ecclesial ecology as
the primary site to discern how Christian communities and leaders
adapt to mounting challenges. Moreover, he provides the first
in-depth analysis of a novel form of organizing religious life-a
"hub"-by telling the story of how collaborative partnerships are
creating new structures of belonging in the Pacific Northwest.
Neither megachurches nor denominations, these hubs are networks
that anchor religious life within a particular community and
facilitate webs of connection across Christian institutions.
Illumined by wisdom drawn from the Christian tradition, they pursue
a particular way of life, one sustained by six complementary forms
of leadership that express the possibility of collaboration and
community in a changing world. Benac contributes to a new and
emerging field at the intersection of practical theology,
organizational theory, sociology of religion, and leadership
studies. For leaders and communities facing uncertainty, Adaptive
Church provides a template for change within and beyond the forms
that have historically guided Christian organization, education,
and leadership.
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